recent kernel upgrades damage mbr

Mark Haney mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Tue Jun 17 13:14:04 UTC 2008


Maurizio Marini wrote:
> I would advice any list member that it is in the wild a issue regarding grub 
> and mbr.
> 
> I invite who has not yet done it, to save mbr on a secure place before any 
> kernel or grub related upgrade, dd is your friend.
> In the meantime fedora experts and developers are at work (hopefully) to 
> investigate and solve this issue.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450143
> 
> man adviced, man half saved
> 
> 	-m
> 

While I'm certainly an advocate for 'better safe than sorry', I've never 
seen a problem with the MBR on a kernel upgrade or install.  Ever.  And 
I've been building kernels since mid '97 or so.

That said, this subject line is really misleading and should really be 
more about grub than kernels, since grub upgrade do affect the mbr and 
kernel upgrades (in my experience) don't.

I read this subject line and freaked since I had just updated one of my 
servers to the latest kernel and was rebooting as I read it.  Of course, 
it came up fine, so I did some research and wanted to clarify this post 
some.



-- 
Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt -- Caius Julius Caesar


Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
(828) 350-2415

Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support




More information about the fedora-list mailing list